forests, foil, and fiscal myths

Monday, July 6, 2026

I wore a dead king’s face to deliver news to his wife.

1. Venkatesh Rao: the internet isn’t dark anymore, it’s dead
2. Both parties are wrong about fixing Social Security — here’s the actual math
3. Kitchen aluminum foil: the underrated miracle material
4. Why π’s digits and a dice roll are statistically identical — but fundamentally different
5. Why only 13% of surplus supermarket food reaches food banks
6. Hollywood spent 25 years copying the wrong thing about Lord of the Rings